Enzo Sellerio,
distinguished publisher and brilliant but reclusive photographer, has been
recording his native Sicily since the Second World War. His considerable
achievement is contained in the images within this book. The work is not some
attempt at an inclusive compendium of photographs of Sicilian life but the
visual harvest gathered from Sellerio's personal experiences of his native
land. It is a gallery of passing impressions and fleeting moments given more
solid substance by the photographer's pressing of the button on his camera.
Among the street
scenes and interiors, townscapes and landscapes, people working and at play,
the ebb and flow of Sicilian life, the viewer of these photographs begins to
recognise a master whose sense of composition has been influenced by the great
European painters whose work he knows so well, by Breughel, Caravaggio,
Rembrandt, Vermeer and Millet. A
Photographer in Sicily shows a brilliant visual sensibility at work.
